Weight gain, weed smoking and (more) weird outfits — Lady Gaga is back in the news, but is she still in control of her craziness?

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t’s been an interesting couple of weeks for Lady Gaga, even by Lady Gaga
standards. First, there was her bizarre performance at the party to launch
her fragrance, Fame, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. To the general
bafflement of the crowd, she spent the first hour “asleep” inside a giant
replica of the Nick Knight-designed perfume bottle, before stripping down to
her underwear, smoking what appeared to be a bowl of ganja and having a
cherub tattooed onto the back of her newly shaved head, in remembrance of
her friend Terry Richardson’s recently deceased mother. As you do.

A few days later, she was targeted by religious groups and animal-rights
activists for pitching up at London Fashion Week in a burqa pinned with
raccoon tails. Then there was a second marijuana “incident”, when she
sparked up a spliff on stage at a gig in Amsterdam, before extolling the